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Old 22-11-2007, 10:33
Phil S
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Hi

Having read lots of posts on 37/40" flatsceen TVs I was going to buy a Panasonic 37PX70 plasma. Someone advised me to go and have a look in a showroom and having done that I wasn't convinced that the plasma was any better than a Sony 40S3000 on standard freeview SD.

I may now buy a Sony 40" - but which one that is the question?

I will only be viewing Freeview SD and DVD SD, I have no HD content and unlikely to get any in the near future. The 40S3000 looked reasonably good on SD but having read posts on here other 40" models are always praised. eg, the 40W2000, 40W3000, 40D3000 etc.

Now as I am only going to use SD is their any advantage in any of these more expensive models, or will I just be wasting money. In particular I am not sure whether SD will look any better on a 1080p TV, I read somewhere that the extra video procesing to get SD up to 1080p is detrimental to the SD quality. Is this true?

Sony seem to have a plethora of 40" models and it all gets rather confusing. Best possible quality SD pictures is what I'm after, with reasonable sound. Not interested in gaming.

Still havent ruled out the 37PX70 panny but a bit of helpful swaying would be appreciated.
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Old 22-11-2007, 10:46
Nigel Goodwin
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Now as I am only going to use SD is their any advantage in any of these more expensive models, or will I just be wasting money. In particular I am not sure whether SD will look any better on a 1080p TV, I read somewhere that the extra video procesing to get SD up to 1080p is detrimental to the SD quality. Is this true?
No, the full HD 40W2000 is probably one of the best sets on SD - well worth considering now the W3000 series is out, and the W2000 has dropped in price.

But all the Sony sets are pretty good on SD, they use decent quality upscalers.

Really though you need to make up your own mind - see if your dealer will demo them side by side?.
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Old 22-11-2007, 12:59
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But all the Sony sets are pretty good on SD, they use decent quality upscalers.
I'd go along with that.

I've just bought a 40" U3000 I'm I'm very happy with it.

I do now have Sky HD and play some HD content off my laptop but obviously still watch a lot of SD content as well. Most channels look excellent. Some of the cheapo satellite channels look pretty nasty but as I understand it they look nasty on pretty much any large screen TV.

The stuff from the built in freeview tuner looks good too. Ditto my SD DVD player.
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